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  "published":"2025-07-15T13:29:41.199Z",
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  "content":"<p>We've been fairly effective at getting Claude Code to write useful code on our repos. I say useful, in that it saves some time. Not in that it's ready to ship.&nbsp; However, this seems to be in a large part because we have a lot of patterns that are supportive of human developers as well:</p><ul><li>Good README in each repo</li><li>Makefiles (with help) in each repo that make it easy to work with the service locally</li><li>All service defaults work in dev so locally you don't have to specify any configuration</li><li>Docker builds and all deps running in `docker-compose` so you can stand a service up locally</li><li>Shared patterns between repos that are enforced (e.g. same libs, same DBs, etc)</li><li>Shared protobuf schemas used by all services</li><li>Extracted libraries with common code</li><li>Standardized testing framework</li><li>80+% test coverage on Go repos, higher on Elixir repos where type safety doesn't help as much</li><li>A system-wide YAML file describing each service, what it depends on, what it produces and consumes</li></ul><p>All of the above makes it easy to work on our codebases for humans. And it makes AI much less likely to go off script and make a mess.</p>",
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